Riding Holidays & Horse Riding Holidays

Readers who already have pictures from previous trails with us – plus all riders who will be taking pictures during this season – are invited to select their finest FreeRein Trail photos and enter our Grand 2011 Photo Competion.

Entries should be sent on disc – clearly labelled with your name,address/email to:

Photo Comp, FreeRein Riding Holidays, Coach House, Clyro Court, Hereford HR3 5LE – and specifying the Category(ies) you are entering.

The winner of each Category will be offered £100 Voucher OR option of £50 cash prize Nov. 2011

Photo Categories:

Max 4 Pics per Category 16 Pics per Entry.
1/ Preparing Horses out on trail – catching, feeding, grooming, tacking-up
2/ Riders on Trail – Gates, Trotting, Cantering, Map reading
3/ At FreeRein HQ
4/ In the bar
5/ At a farm
6/ Guided Ride / Onto the Trail Rider Group
7/ Mine host at farm, inn or hotel.
8/ Scenary / views (with/without horse).

An air of expection and excitement is abroad among the horses this spring. There are going to be lots of trips into the hills visiting all our favourite farms and inns. Of late there has been too many times when there has been little to do except stand around the feeding rings gossiping and grumbling – even feelings of animosity towards those who are getting the most trips out. Rumours of compulsory redundancies regularly spread from the office into the fields.
So there were great celebrations when we learned that the bookings for April were double those for last year and three times the year before.
Many of us have been fitted with brand new saddles – and there is a new(ish) Equibus to carry us about. We are all a bit puzzled by how this has come about. Maybe its because there have been no increase in prices for the last 2 years – or perhaps our fellow workers at the airports have helped us with strike threats. Or it could be that – as a result of full page articles in the Times, The Guardian, Observer, Independent and the Telegraph – there is an increasing realisation that us FreeRein Horses, combined with the Great Cambrian Horse Trail Network, really do offer a very special and unique service for horse riders.

Alfie & Archie - The A Team set off on the Begwns Trail Riding Holiday